Post by The Tonearm
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"There was an esoteric branch that dreamed of a not-so-modern Germany, in contrast with Kraftwerk, who embraced modernity. There are two factions in krautrock: one looking forward, the other backward." As a founding member of Kluster and the author of 'Krautrock Eruption,' Seidel reframes 'Zuckerzeit,' 'Sowiesoso,' and the broader krautrock movement through the lens of postwar German social history — and finds the English-language mythology wanting. The Tonearm's Bill Kopp peers into the cosmos. Wolfgang Seidel, Eyewitness to the Kosmische:
